Hello! I'm

Riccardo Battiato

I'm a software developer based in Catania, Italy, where I work at mono .

This is my personal website, where you will find writings about the challenges of web development, building digital products, growing as a generalist and anything technology-related.

Recent Posts

• Design Patterns for Vue.js Book Review

  Published:May 4, 2024 |  at 09:27 AM

  Design Patterns for Vue.js is a book about first principles, separation of concerns and quality frontend written by the author of Vue Test Utils, Lachlan Miller.

• "Hire the right people"

  Published:Mar 19, 2024 |  at 08:03 PM

  It's easy to say that in order to have a well-functioning team that produces quality results, you have to "hire the right people". But what does that actually mean?

• Implementing Date type in GraphQL

  Published:Mar 3, 2024 |  at 05:55 PM

  By default, GraphQL doesn't come with a way to work with dates and time. What you can do, however, is to define a custom type representing a ISO DateTime value.

• The maximum subarray problem from windows to mountains

  Published:Feb 9, 2024 |  at 10:00 PM

  While practicing on Codewars, I've stumbled upon a problem that had me thinking for days. From the first-attempt, ridiculously inefficient solution up to "discovering" Kadane's algorithm, the maximum subarray problem has been one of the funniest challenges I've encountered so far.